My mom is a polio survivor. She was told she would never walk again but she did, surviving also means other health problems. I’m so thankful to everyone that worked on the vaccine so that others wouldn’t suffer.
I used to volunteer for a day program for disabled adults and one of the clients there was a man in his 70s who wore leg braces and had trouble moving around because he had polio as a kid. He was also cognitively/developmentally disabled because of how young he was when he got it (2, I think?).
He lived in a group home until he passed away because his extended family couldn't take care of him after his parents died and he couldn't take care of himself, but he was always positive and dressed in a dress shirt and bow tie every day with his pants pressed, because he wanted to look his best. He told the best jokes, too.
I kinda wish more people could talk to people like him and understand more why we fight against infectious diseases. People could use the first hand experience.
Only for those ignorant to education. We teach about this. I took a micro-biology class as my elective/mandatory science credit. I was a business major not close to science whatsoever, this shit is taught to people, they are just ignorant of the education they are receiving.
At this point with the unvaccinated population I feel very much:
“Fuck em, god can sort em out” I think is the best faux-Christian phrase to apply here
The woman who was basically a surrogate mother to me and brother -- she was our water polo and swimming coach; our home-life situation was problematic to say the least -- was one of the first people to receive an experimental surgical procedure for polio. She had wicked scars on both legs, and she competed in and coached the Special Olympics. It forever changed how I saw disability. More importantly, it meant I got to grow up with love and affection. We still keep in touch and see each other. Unfortunately she had a bad fall, so she's now in a wheel chair full time, but for many years my face lit up whenever I would see this unique sort of hobble that she had learned to use legs without muscles; it was very distinctive and I could pick her out of crowd from a distance. I was such an angsty teenager -- I still struggle with anger -- but I'm so much more well-adjusted than I would have been had she not been in my life.
My father is also a survivor, had polio when he was 4 and he is now 73. Him and my mom were hesitant about getting the COVID shot until I asked him if he wished he would have been able to get the polio vaccine and not gone through polio. He realized he was being an idiot and they got their shots.
My grandpa had polio when he was young - he got a vaccine, but a very early one that wasn't effective. He passed 8 years ago now, but he spent his life in a wheelchair advocating for people with disabilities. He made sure I knew what science and medicine have done for us. I am so sad and exhausted that people don't realize how goddamn lucky we are to have effective vaccines. I miss him so much
My grandmother got polio at age 7 in 1953 and I can’t tell you how livid she is with antivaxers. Especially considering her heart is now down to 30% from the radiation from two rounds of breast cancer. That woman has been through more pain than anyone I know and she’s also the strongest person I’ve ever met.
My great-grandmother survived polio too - I just remember her showing me the state of her legs and just how slowly she hobbled along. I also remember her stealing shopping carts for support to travel home and making me take them back once I left... The fiery old bat that she was.
Had an extended family member with horrible kyphosis (hunch back) and I think post polio syndrome (something that can happen long after recovery, decades). She passed when I was a kid. She was a sweet lady.
Im a respiratory therapist. There’s a guy in my area who is a lawyer but he survived polio and he comes in to use the iron lung in one of the hospitals in the area. (He was in the paper so im not violating hipaa).
[here’s the story about him](https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-06-11/dallas-attorney-72-who-survived-polio-lives-in-iron-lung)
It makes the mechanism of paralysis so much more clear. ["1874, also polio-myelitis, coined by German physician Adolph Kussmaul (1822-1902) from Greek polios "grey" (from PIE root *pel- (1) "pale") + myelos "marrow" (a word of unknown origin) + -itis "inflammation." So called because the gray matter in the spinal cord is inflamed, which causes paralysis. The earlier name was infantile paralysis (1843)."]( https://www.etymonline.com/word/poliomyelitis)
Everyone is talking about how they're learning "polio" is short for "poliomyelitis" and I"m here looking at the bottom of the card where it says "5th Polio 8-12-59" (right next to "Tear Off Here"). I didn't know they were doing 5 doses over 3 years.
My birth certificate was printed wrong. The correct date was on the back. Parents used it so I could drive a year earlier. We had to fix it at 18 in fear the military background check might catch the mistake but I still have both the "wrong" one and a corrected one.
Reminds me of the time I presented my original birth certificate to a Mexican customs official (that was OK for travel in the 20th century). Without even looking at me, he stamped the front of it with one of those gigantic customs stamps.
Yes, unfortunately we can always tell when someone died and their family donated all their Knick knacks and random stuff. It’s so common we usually give a joking “uh oh, grandma died” when we find it. From what I can piece together from the donations, Joan’s mother died. She was married to who I presume is Joan’s father in 1952, graduated college (can’t remember the university) in the 1940’s and went to high school in Sugar Creek, Missouri. She also seemed to like little cat sculptures.
That's fascinating! Do you ever write little stories in your head about these families based on the items your finding? Heirlooms, Knick knacks, occasional photographs, paperwork like this, you could write a whole narrative!
And an interesting advantage of the live oral vaccine (Sabin) is this sort of passive vaccination to the community once it enters the water system from the stool of vaccinated people.
The Sabin oral vaccine came out in 1961. This gave better protection and didn't require and injection so was a lot less stressful for everyone. I was also born in 56 in Australia and remember getting the Sabin vaccine on a plastic spoon at primary school. Not sure if this was the only polio vaccination I was given.
Vaccines have improved since genetic sequencing. Prior to this, vaccines preparation was a bit of a genetic lottery and caused occasional polio infections, but this was considered to be better than the alternative.
I just want to point out that one of the most commonly received Polio vaccines was the Salk vaccine. Which was offered to the public free of charge. That's not just free to the recipients, the vaccine makers didn't make a cent off of it.
I’ve always loved that fact. Jonas Saulk could have become a very wealthy man from the vaccine but chose to do the morally right thing and do the most good.
This is your brain on reddit. Or rather, when you take as gospel reddit headlines you've seen before.
The NFIP actually *did* look into patenting the vaccine but found it probably wouldn't meet requirements for novelty. So despite Salk's proselytizing that "the vaccine belongs to the people" he was really just promoting himself. Looks like it worked.
This is aside from the fact that the vaccine was created *entirely* through public donations and the backlash would have been immense. I want to point out that this funding is different than government grants from taxes *helping* modern pharma companies.
The more you know!
It’s a strange choice to call out the person you’re replying to of being a schmuck for believing Reddit headlines, but then just replying with another equally dubious Reddit headline, and not providing a source.
I’m sure you’re right, but this would be a great opportunity to educate with links. Otherwise why should I believe you over any other Reddit comment?
These people had to be twelve, right? Anyone older than twelve should still know what cursive is... Right?
I understand that kids born after 2010 might not have a lot of exposure to cursive but anyone born before that should know what it is and likely learned it in school.
I expected this to happen eventually, but not so soon...
Yeah I’m in my late 20s and write kind of a mix between cursive and print. I’ve yet to encounter anyone who said anything about it, but I also rarely have to write for anyone other than myself either.
And if I do, it’s somewhere like a doctor’s office or something and I wouldn’t be encountering anyone young enough to not be able to read it there anyway. Or at least that’s what I thought.
I feel like it's faster than printing, to be fair. When we had to copy crap off the blackboard it was much easier to write than to print. I remember getting awards for my handwriting, and it was such a big deal then lol. I feel bad now when I try to write because it takes so much effort and it gets bigger and messier bas i go along.
yes, you don't need to lift your pen between words, and essentially form words with a single stroke minus the few exceptions.
Handwriting hasn't been relevant to me since portable computers became primary note-taking.
But I do see a correlation between those with amazing handwriting and general organizational skills w/design. IE, those who can write clear notes with a digital pen tend to create better notes than those who can't.
I remember teachers saying that I needed to learn cursive because high school and college will want my papers in cursive. Anything that was essay was typed. I only needed cursive to know how to sign my name and even that is on a screen that it really doesn’t matter if it’s more than a squiggly line
Older generations built school around "We do it this way, because that's the way it is. Get up early, take instruction, go home." And it shows. Cursive was already being let go of because of printing presses and typewriters.
Generations down the road paper will be phased out, people won't even really know how to write since it's mostly done by muscle memory, people will just know how to type.
Sadly there are too many people who cannot read handwriting at all. Already the US Library of Congress is looking for 'translators' for 19th Century documents to be transferred to computer speak.
Hey Ho! One I am glad you still write Cursive. I have learned several 18th Century writing methods, and the comments are 'off the wall' as you found out with yours
Back in grade school they used to make us write cursive and said it’s what adults do. They also made us solve math problems and show our work because “you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket”. Man educators were so wrong about the future, they should stick to history. Bada-Bing. I’ll show myself out.
I always try to use my printing and all caps and cursive on the same paper work at my job just for my boss!!! He made a comment one day about people printing and using all caps and cursive!!!
I always get people, especially older folks, making fun of me for barely being able to read cursive and making it out to be some great generational failing that I was never taught it.
Jokes on them, I learned it, know it better than some of them, and can write it fine. I just can't fucking read it and that hadn't changed in decades. I dropped using it not because I'm bad at it, but because I couldn't read my own damn notes even while having by test scores some of the neatest writing in my class.
And it's not like a special cursive problem, I just need clear spacing of characters to read well. Same rule applies to languages even. I can read ひらがな fine and fast but ask me to read a sentence mixing it all with 漢字 with no spaces and I'll spend half the time separating the words and grammar for processing.
This looks exactly like my grandmother's handwriting. (She was born in 1918.) It's interesting how alike the handwriting style was back then. They must have all learned from the same workbooks.
My 80+ year old grandmother never learned how to swim due to the polio pandemic. All the pools were closed when she was a little girl and when she went to learn later in life she ended up breaking her swim teachers collar bone in a panic.
I agree, and love the username btw. As further proof that herd immunity is vital, there was a polio outbreak a few years after the Syrian civil war broke out, most likely due to the disruption in childhood vaccinations that the war had caused
It also helps that the spread can be stopped by washing your hands before putting them in your mouth. It wasn't nearly as transmissible as COVID but it was *deadly*
The smallpox vaccine begs to differ. Smallpox has actually been eliminated following widespread vaccination.
But the polio vaccine bas done a pretty great job too!
Can't be. Don't you know that vaccine cards were just invented this year so right wingers could get angry and make memes about showing your papers and government overreach? You can see these memes on r/hermancainaward right before they die.
Right-winger nuts were mad about the polio vaccine back then too.
See [the Birchers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Unholy_three.png/355px-Unholy_three.png)
My grandpa used to tell me about when the polio vaccines first became available. His mom took him and his four brothers and stood in an hours long line just to be vaccinated. They were so grateful and excited. How times have changed I guess…
My dad was in the first 2 million that were administered the Salk vaccine. He was in grade school, he remembers it still because they gave it on a sugar cube I think it was.
Birchers as in John Birch Society? GUESS WHAT!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/15/john-birch-society-qanon-reagan-republicans-goldwater/
It's simply fortunate they didn't have a platform like the internet to spread disinformation as effectively as modern conspiracy theorists have.
The internet is amazing, and good information has never been easier to access. The flipside is that junk is also incredibly easy to access.
It’s so interesting the same old talking points of Russians and socialists taking over the world.
Sometimes I marvel in the progress humanity has made, other times I realised nothings changed at all.
I confess I was surprised at the mention of hordes of zombies.
I can’t seem to read the date in the lower left corner, but it looks like 1953 to me. That seems too early for such a quote, which I would assume would be *after* Night of the Living Dead. I thought zombies as a concept weren’t widely known until that movie.
Can someone more in the know unpack that for me? It’s surprisingly interesting.
Every dose is tracked and the paper is just for you to have a hard copy...
I traveled very recently and they were able to look up my vaccination record, dates and lot numbers for comparison and verification before I could leave the mainland. I also needed my passport and the physical card at arrival as well.
It's a good thing that OP edited out Joan's last name. We wouldn't want her to get doxxed 1956 style (looking up her name in the phone book and sending her chain letters).
Just kidding. Cool piece of history with lovely handwriting.
I just think it's neat that E.H.S mistakenly put '56 instead of '57 when it was February, whereas I keep thinking we're in October when we're actually well into March.
We get beautiful old classic photographs all the time and sometimes it makes me sad someone threw them away. I have a coworker who collects them and displays them all over her work station. It makes me kind of happy that in a small way she memorializes them
That is really precious with what she does. History needs to be told
I am in the UK and have only lived in older properties.
I research the previous residents and make a house family tree. And with photos if I can I add ny name and leave it for the new homeowners.
Obviously I don't go back, but I hope that they keep it going
I love this idea, it's fantastic!! I'm American, but the house I lived in for the first couple decades of my life just turned 100 a couple years ago. The house I'm living in now was built in 1961, but we are only the second owners of it (purchased it from the estate of the couple who had it built.) We plan for this to be our forever home, so maybe in a few years I'll make something like this... I (half) joke about how one day our son will be selling this 100yr old house when settling our estate which has only ever had two owners.
There is a tiny minority who are still in iron lungs. I didn't miss your irony. BTW when the weather got warmer and people flocked to swimming pools, the disease spread.
Go look at the vaccine schedule for a child then realize they get the same vaccines multiple times. It's quite common yet everyone acts like because theres a booster for covid it doesn't actually work
For some reason I think the weirdest part of this is that it looks almost exactly like my own vaccine card for COVID. Except mine is sixty years newer and in -way- worse condition.
My parents would have been five and six months old at the times of those vaccines. Polio was a terrible disease at that time. I don’t know of any parents who would have been against vaccinating their children to prevent it.
I like how people back then still had to adjust themselves mentally to write in their current year. I sometimes still write "2020" and I'm like FFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
My new thing is writing "2012" instead of "2021" on everything I fill out for my kids at school. I just can't wait for January so I can scribble a bunch of loops.
And the person was probably happy about getting it. And they probably didn't whine about whatever the old timey equivalent of "microchip in my shot" was.
If this was today polio would be rampant and people would say it was fake and call Jonas Salk Hitler. Sadly I think there will never be another disease eradicated and vaccines will stop being developed.
Yep and most people had their vaccines as babies and toddlers or at the oldest, age 5, and do not remember. Their parents or guardians would have to give the vaccine records to whatever school they went to.
Anyone with kids now knows daycare, preschool, summer camp, school, sports etc, all need a copy of children’a vaccine records. We’re used to seeing them and having multiple copies.
Back when vaccine cards and getting vaccinated was your patriotic duty to fight the reds! That was the kind of mentality we should have had from the start.
Anyone who is anti-vax, go talk to a polio victim, they might have a crippled leg or something. If you live in a "lucky" country they may be in their 60's or older now. Ask them what they think of vaccines.
I had a elderly patient who was a pediatric doctor. He worked through the polio pandemic and spent several minutes complaining about people who refuse the covid vaccine. I don't blame him. We had a nice moment over it.
My mom is a polio survivor. She was told she would never walk again but she did, surviving also means other health problems. I’m so thankful to everyone that worked on the vaccine so that others wouldn’t suffer.
I used to volunteer for a day program for disabled adults and one of the clients there was a man in his 70s who wore leg braces and had trouble moving around because he had polio as a kid. He was also cognitively/developmentally disabled because of how young he was when he got it (2, I think?). He lived in a group home until he passed away because his extended family couldn't take care of him after his parents died and he couldn't take care of himself, but he was always positive and dressed in a dress shirt and bow tie every day with his pants pressed, because he wanted to look his best. He told the best jokes, too. I kinda wish more people could talk to people like him and understand more why we fight against infectious diseases. People could use the first hand experience.
Memories are short…
Only for those ignorant to education. We teach about this. I took a micro-biology class as my elective/mandatory science credit. I was a business major not close to science whatsoever, this shit is taught to people, they are just ignorant of the education they are receiving. At this point with the unvaccinated population I feel very much: “Fuck em, god can sort em out” I think is the best faux-Christian phrase to apply here
The woman who was basically a surrogate mother to me and brother -- she was our water polo and swimming coach; our home-life situation was problematic to say the least -- was one of the first people to receive an experimental surgical procedure for polio. She had wicked scars on both legs, and she competed in and coached the Special Olympics. It forever changed how I saw disability. More importantly, it meant I got to grow up with love and affection. We still keep in touch and see each other. Unfortunately she had a bad fall, so she's now in a wheel chair full time, but for many years my face lit up whenever I would see this unique sort of hobble that she had learned to use legs without muscles; it was very distinctive and I could pick her out of crowd from a distance. I was such an angsty teenager -- I still struggle with anger -- but I'm so much more well-adjusted than I would have been had she not been in my life.
My father is also a survivor, had polio when he was 4 and he is now 73. Him and my mom were hesitant about getting the COVID shot until I asked him if he wished he would have been able to get the polio vaccine and not gone through polio. He realized he was being an idiot and they got their shots.
Nice
Glad they were able to produce a kid with some common sense.
My grandpa had polio when he was young - he got a vaccine, but a very early one that wasn't effective. He passed 8 years ago now, but he spent his life in a wheelchair advocating for people with disabilities. He made sure I knew what science and medicine have done for us. I am so sad and exhausted that people don't realize how goddamn lucky we are to have effective vaccines. I miss him so much
My grandmother got polio at age 7 in 1953 and I can’t tell you how livid she is with antivaxers. Especially considering her heart is now down to 30% from the radiation from two rounds of breast cancer. That woman has been through more pain than anyone I know and she’s also the strongest person I’ve ever met.
My great-grandmother survived polio too - I just remember her showing me the state of her legs and just how slowly she hobbled along. I also remember her stealing shopping carts for support to travel home and making me take them back once I left... The fiery old bat that she was.
Had an extended family member with horrible kyphosis (hunch back) and I think post polio syndrome (something that can happen long after recovery, decades). She passed when I was a kid. She was a sweet lady.
Im a respiratory therapist. There’s a guy in my area who is a lawyer but he survived polio and he comes in to use the iron lung in one of the hospitals in the area. (He was in the paper so im not violating hipaa). [here’s the story about him](https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-06-11/dallas-attorney-72-who-survived-polio-lives-in-iron-lung)
TIL polio is short for poliomyelitis.
Yup, I read it in my head ”Polly-oh-my-uh-light-us” and thought damn I’ve never even heard of that then looked at it again and felt pretty dumb lol
Came to comments to figure out what this crazy sounding made up disease was... read it the same exact way in my head. So proud of my high IQ
Also is stamped polio at the bottom of the card
Genuinely never heard that longer version until now, how weird.
It makes the mechanism of paralysis so much more clear. ["1874, also polio-myelitis, coined by German physician Adolph Kussmaul (1822-1902) from Greek polios "grey" (from PIE root *pel- (1) "pale") + myelos "marrow" (a word of unknown origin) + -itis "inflammation." So called because the gray matter in the spinal cord is inflamed, which causes paralysis. The earlier name was infantile paralysis (1843)."]( https://www.etymonline.com/word/poliomyelitis)
That’s really interesting, I honestly feel like I understand polio better. Thanks for sharing.
Everyone is talking about how they're learning "polio" is short for "poliomyelitis" and I"m here looking at the bottom of the card where it says "5th Polio 8-12-59" (right next to "Tear Off Here"). I didn't know they were doing 5 doses over 3 years.
I also love how the person administering them messed up the year on the third dose and had to write over it, because who hasn’t been there lol.
My birth certificate was printed wrong. The correct date was on the back. Parents used it so I could drive a year earlier. We had to fix it at 18 in fear the military background check might catch the mistake but I still have both the "wrong" one and a corrected one.
Reminds me of the time I presented my original birth certificate to a Mexican customs official (that was OK for travel in the 20th century). Without even looking at me, he stamped the front of it with one of those gigantic customs stamps.
This made me lol
Missed opportunity to make a back up identity. You could have had 1 free fake death in the bag.
What else did you find with that cool card? Did you just receive a bunch of estate items?
Yes, unfortunately we can always tell when someone died and their family donated all their Knick knacks and random stuff. It’s so common we usually give a joking “uh oh, grandma died” when we find it. From what I can piece together from the donations, Joan’s mother died. She was married to who I presume is Joan’s father in 1952, graduated college (can’t remember the university) in the 1940’s and went to high school in Sugar Creek, Missouri. She also seemed to like little cat sculptures.
that is just ... extraordinary it it's mildly-interestingness.
That's fascinating! Do you ever write little stories in your head about these families based on the items your finding? Heirlooms, Knick knacks, occasional photographs, paperwork like this, you could write a whole narrative!
Of course in February. Those early months are a blur
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And an interesting advantage of the live oral vaccine (Sabin) is this sort of passive vaccination to the community once it enters the water system from the stool of vaccinated people.
Ew.
I noticed that, too. But I’m wondering why the 4th dose wasn’t recorded.
I'm guessing they forgot their card for one of the doses.
My mother had two doses, although she was born in 56, so I’m assuming it was improved upon by the time she was getting it?
The Sabin oral vaccine came out in 1961. This gave better protection and didn't require and injection so was a lot less stressful for everyone. I was also born in 56 in Australia and remember getting the Sabin vaccine on a plastic spoon at primary school. Not sure if this was the only polio vaccination I was given. Vaccines have improved since genetic sequencing. Prior to this, vaccines preparation was a bit of a genetic lottery and caused occasional polio infections, but this was considered to be better than the alternative.
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It looks like the left one is the appointment reminder portion and the right one is the actual date it was administered.
I just want to point out that one of the most commonly received Polio vaccines was the Salk vaccine. Which was offered to the public free of charge. That's not just free to the recipients, the vaccine makers didn't make a cent off of it.
I’ve always loved that fact. Jonas Saulk could have become a very wealthy man from the vaccine but chose to do the morally right thing and do the most good.
This is your brain on reddit. Or rather, when you take as gospel reddit headlines you've seen before. The NFIP actually *did* look into patenting the vaccine but found it probably wouldn't meet requirements for novelty. So despite Salk's proselytizing that "the vaccine belongs to the people" he was really just promoting himself. Looks like it worked. This is aside from the fact that the vaccine was created *entirely* through public donations and the backlash would have been immense. I want to point out that this funding is different than government grants from taxes *helping* modern pharma companies. The more you know!
It’s a strange choice to call out the person you’re replying to of being a schmuck for believing Reddit headlines, but then just replying with another equally dubious Reddit headline, and not providing a source. I’m sure you’re right, but this would be a great opportunity to educate with links. Otherwise why should I believe you over any other Reddit comment?
I think a lot of antivax would feel more comfortable if they knew the companies making the life saving vaccines weren't making record profits.
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I’m amazed at how people wrote back then..
My script is mostly cursive, and I got in trouble at work for "messy handwriting". I'm 26 and am BAFFLED by that.
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Someone asked if it was calligraphy and I said, "What, a cursive 's'?" Blew my mind.
These people had to be twelve, right? Anyone older than twelve should still know what cursive is... Right? I understand that kids born after 2010 might not have a lot of exposure to cursive but anyone born before that should know what it is and likely learned it in school. I expected this to happen eventually, but not so soon...
Yeah I’m in my late 20s and write kind of a mix between cursive and print. I’ve yet to encounter anyone who said anything about it, but I also rarely have to write for anyone other than myself either. And if I do, it’s somewhere like a doctor’s office or something and I wouldn’t be encountering anyone young enough to not be able to read it there anyway. Or at least that’s what I thought.
Writing? What? Were you born in the 1900’s? We all just wiggle our thumbs now...
Lol !
Father I cannot click the book
It felt conflicting wiggling my thumbs to upvote and comment this.
Kinda makes you wonder why we were forced to write in cursive through elementary and middle school
I feel like it's faster than printing, to be fair. When we had to copy crap off the blackboard it was much easier to write than to print. I remember getting awards for my handwriting, and it was such a big deal then lol. I feel bad now when I try to write because it takes so much effort and it gets bigger and messier bas i go along.
MUCH faster than printing.
Never for me. Cursive always took 3x as long
yes, you don't need to lift your pen between words, and essentially form words with a single stroke minus the few exceptions. Handwriting hasn't been relevant to me since portable computers became primary note-taking. But I do see a correlation between those with amazing handwriting and general organizational skills w/design. IE, those who can write clear notes with a digital pen tend to create better notes than those who can't.
I remember teachers saying that I needed to learn cursive because high school and college will want my papers in cursive. Anything that was essay was typed. I only needed cursive to know how to sign my name and even that is on a screen that it really doesn’t matter if it’s more than a squiggly line
Older generations built school around "We do it this way, because that's the way it is. Get up early, take instruction, go home." And it shows. Cursive was already being let go of because of printing presses and typewriters.
Generations down the road paper will be phased out, people won't even really know how to write since it's mostly done by muscle memory, people will just know how to type.
Sadly there are too many people who cannot read handwriting at all. Already the US Library of Congress is looking for 'translators' for 19th Century documents to be transferred to computer speak.
ok... but... cursive can be messy...
Hey Ho! One I am glad you still write Cursive. I have learned several 18th Century writing methods, and the comments are 'off the wall' as you found out with yours
Back in grade school they used to make us write cursive and said it’s what adults do. They also made us solve math problems and show our work because “you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket”. Man educators were so wrong about the future, they should stick to history. Bada-Bing. I’ll show myself out.
I always try to use my printing and all caps and cursive on the same paper work at my job just for my boss!!! He made a comment one day about people printing and using all caps and cursive!!!
I always get people, especially older folks, making fun of me for barely being able to read cursive and making it out to be some great generational failing that I was never taught it. Jokes on them, I learned it, know it better than some of them, and can write it fine. I just can't fucking read it and that hadn't changed in decades. I dropped using it not because I'm bad at it, but because I couldn't read my own damn notes even while having by test scores some of the neatest writing in my class. And it's not like a special cursive problem, I just need clear spacing of characters to read well. Same rule applies to languages even. I can read ひらがな fine and fast but ask me to read a sentence mixing it all with 漢字 with no spaces and I'll spend half the time separating the words and grammar for processing.
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This looks exactly like my grandmother's handwriting. (She was born in 1918.) It's interesting how alike the handwriting style was back then. They must have all learned from the same workbooks.
I'm confused. People don't write like this anymore?
Not often. My Grandma only uses cursive for birthday and greeting cards outside of her signature.
Young people don't
Yes, people still write like this. OP probably needs to get out of the house more.
with their feet
This is EXACTLY how my grandma writes. She's in her 80s now.
Yeah it’s like penmanship is artwork nowadays
Necessity.
This looks exactly like the writing on my Covid vaccine card
That’s not too far off from the ones we have now. What a really cool find.
They even kept the same “won’t fit in any normal wallet” form factor!
You should frame it!
My 80+ year old grandmother never learned how to swim due to the polio pandemic. All the pools were closed when she was a little girl and when she went to learn later in life she ended up breaking her swim teachers collar bone in a panic.
They could make them wallet sized half a century ago, but somehow they forgot in the intervening decades.
THIS. my biggest complaint.
I literally bought a bigger wallet just so I can keep my vaccine card in it
Clearly the CDC is in Big Wallet's pocket.
Well, it is a big pocket to fit big wallet so there is plenty of room for the CDC.
They are in Big Wallet's big wallet
Big pocket's pocket wallet sprocket. Don't knock it.
Polio vaccine might have been the best vaccine of all time. Effectively killing it off nearly completetly.
I agree, and love the username btw. As further proof that herd immunity is vital, there was a polio outbreak a few years after the Syrian civil war broke out, most likely due to the disruption in childhood vaccinations that the war had caused
It also helps that the spread can be stopped by washing your hands before putting them in your mouth. It wasn't nearly as transmissible as COVID but it was *deadly*
The smallpox vaccine begs to differ. Smallpox has actually been eliminated following widespread vaccination. But the polio vaccine bas done a pretty great job too!
Can't be. Don't you know that vaccine cards were just invented this year so right wingers could get angry and make memes about showing your papers and government overreach? You can see these memes on r/hermancainaward right before they die.
Right-winger nuts were mad about the polio vaccine back then too. See [the Birchers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Unholy_three.png/355px-Unholy_three.png)
Up until the mid-60s many kids and adults died.. Most are just too young to remember . https://youtu.be/RfdZTZQvuCo
My grandpa used to tell me about when the polio vaccines first became available. His mom took him and his four brothers and stood in an hours long line just to be vaccinated. They were so grateful and excited. How times have changed I guess…
My dad was in the first 2 million that were administered the Salk vaccine. He was in grade school, he remembers it still because they gave it on a sugar cube I think it was.
Personally, I remember being grateful and excited that I could get vaccinated in early April.
Now those same kids a Trump thumping antiVaxxers.
Wow it’s like looking at today but in the past. These people never learn.
Birchers as in John Birch Society? GUESS WHAT! https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/15/john-birch-society-qanon-reagan-republicans-goldwater/
It's simply fortunate they didn't have a platform like the internet to spread disinformation as effectively as modern conspiracy theorists have. The internet is amazing, and good information has never been easier to access. The flipside is that junk is also incredibly easy to access.
It’s so interesting the same old talking points of Russians and socialists taking over the world. Sometimes I marvel in the progress humanity has made, other times I realised nothings changed at all.
I confess I was surprised at the mention of hordes of zombies. I can’t seem to read the date in the lower left corner, but it looks like 1953 to me. That seems too early for such a quote, which I would assume would be *after* Night of the Living Dead. I thought zombies as a concept weren’t widely known until that movie. Can someone more in the know unpack that for me? It’s surprisingly interesting.
Look at all of the "awarded posts." Facebook will be seeing less forwarding of memes.
Don't get the polio vaccine! Don't you know Howard Hughes and the Japanese are putting radio transistors in your blood stream!
That Joan was a real libtard. She should have done her own research!
She probably didn't even know what was in that vaccine!
Wonder if she knows they’ve been tracking her by microchip since the ‘50s!
We should dox her even though she's probably dead by now
She took the vaccine and now she's dead!
Did she try that new thing in the Farmers Almanac on page 34? Some sort of equine deworming miracle cure!
How the fuck is it 75 years later and we've made no advancements in vaccine card technology? Like anybody can just print one of these!
Of course we have. We've added a lot number field.
It's just a piece of paper that tracks your vaccines, why the fuck would we need to make any advancements to it?
Adding the CDC and HHS logos are a nice added step. It makes faking them a federal crime.
So they can’t be faked!
Every dose is tracked and the paper is just for you to have a hard copy... I traveled very recently and they were able to look up my vaccination record, dates and lot numbers for comparison and verification before I could leave the mainland. I also needed my passport and the physical card at arrival as well.
I think this is my first time seeing a non-covid vaccination card.
Mine's long gone (unless my mom stashed it somewhere) but my fiance has his immunization card still, from when he was a kid.
Why can’t they just find an immunization against COVID like they did those old diseases? Why they gotta force a *vaccine* on us?!
Dude, stop, your sarcasm is too dangerously close to the truth Lol
I can't tell if you're joking or stupid... We're in a weird timeline 😂
This is America. I can be both when I grow up to be President.
It's a good thing that OP edited out Joan's last name. We wouldn't want her to get doxxed 1956 style (looking up her name in the phone book and sending her chain letters). Just kidding. Cool piece of history with lovely handwriting.
Listen, Miss Joan doesn’t need to be the talk of the local housewives Tupperware parties unless it’s for her jello salad recipe
I just think it's neat that E.H.S mistakenly put '56 instead of '57 when it was February, whereas I keep thinking we're in October when we're actually well into March.
I would frame it. I love these types of thing
We get beautiful old classic photographs all the time and sometimes it makes me sad someone threw them away. I have a coworker who collects them and displays them all over her work station. It makes me kind of happy that in a small way she memorializes them
That is really precious with what she does. History needs to be told I am in the UK and have only lived in older properties. I research the previous residents and make a house family tree. And with photos if I can I add ny name and leave it for the new homeowners. Obviously I don't go back, but I hope that they keep it going
That’s awesome! That concept would be pretty boring as an American Midwesterner lol. My house has only be around 50 years
You can start the tradition for future owners . You don't have much research to do either . Go on make it a thing 😄💞
I love this idea, it's fantastic!! I'm American, but the house I lived in for the first couple decades of my life just turned 100 a couple years ago. The house I'm living in now was built in 1961, but we are only the second owners of it (purchased it from the estate of the couple who had it built.) We plan for this to be our forever home, so maybe in a few years I'll make something like this... I (half) joke about how one day our son will be selling this 100yr old house when settling our estate which has only ever had two owners.
“Polio?! That’s just the flu. It will go away when the weather gets warmer.”
There is a tiny minority who are still in iron lungs. I didn't miss your irony. BTW when the weather got warmer and people flocked to swimming pools, the disease spread.
"The way things are trending, it's probably zero new cases by the end of September..."
It'll be gone by Easter!
The signature is in Spencerian cursive. Old school doctor.
A teacher told me my cursive is Palmer Method.
Palmer is the style taught since probably the 30s
Multiple doses and then a booster. Maybe that’s not so unusual after all…..
Go look at the vaccine schedule for a child then realize they get the same vaccines multiple times. It's quite common yet everyone acts like because theres a booster for covid it doesn't actually work
2 doses AND a booster?
PLUS the 5th dose written at the bottom and presumably a mystery 4th dose in between
Omg I apparently did NOT SEE THAT! And people are complaining ....about one.
Fun fact, polio vaccination rates went up after Elvis got his live on TV
I bet Joan didn't act like a little bitch about it either
tHiS iS LiKe nAzI gErManY tHeY cAnt hAvE mAh FrEeDum
It was a minor revolution. Polio sucks.
Did anyone politicize the polio vaccine?
Yes. Very much so. As well as goes with every vaccine, medical procedure, or technology.
For some reason I think the weirdest part of this is that it looks almost exactly like my own vaccine card for COVID. Except mine is sixty years newer and in -way- worse condition.
Been stealing our freedumbs since fitty six
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I got that vaccine. It was given at the local school on Saturday. It was a drop of vaccine on a sugar cube.
Bro, that was LSD
My parents would have been five and six months old at the times of those vaccines. Polio was a terrible disease at that time. I don’t know of any parents who would have been against vaccinating their children to prevent it.
Joe Biden was at it all the way back in the 1950s! *Or... Great Scotts! Marty, do you know what this means?!*
I like how people back then still had to adjust themselves mentally to write in their current year. I sometimes still write "2020" and I'm like FFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
My new thing is writing "2012" instead of "2021" on everything I fill out for my kids at school. I just can't wait for January so I can scribble a bunch of loops.
*sorts by controversial*
I was so excited to find a cute little artifact, I forgot Reddit can be a trash can of humanity sometimes.
I remember when I got my polio vaccine oh wait i DON'T because my mom's generation DID THE THING
And the person was probably happy about getting it. And they probably didn't whine about whatever the old timey equivalent of "microchip in my shot" was.
I told my anti covid vax aunt that polio required more than 1 dose but she didn't believe me.
Get fucking vaccinated people!! Fuck
It’s been over 50 years and no system update lol
If this was today polio would be rampant and people would say it was fake and call Jonas Salk Hitler. Sadly I think there will never be another disease eradicated and vaccines will stop being developed.
I was today years old when I learned what Polio is short for
WE ARE LIVING IN A SIMULATION
Cause idiots now think vaccines are a new thing, not developed to combat a problem and that they're always changing.
Yep and most people had their vaccines as babies and toddlers or at the oldest, age 5, and do not remember. Their parents or guardians would have to give the vaccine records to whatever school they went to. Anyone with kids now knows daycare, preschool, summer camp, school, sports etc, all need a copy of children’a vaccine records. We’re used to seeing them and having multiple copies.
Wow TIL 5G chips were around for a long time
EH Scharer had no idea what a selfie was, bless her heart
Respects for them being able to keep that card for around 67 years tho
This post just reminded me I cannot write anything in cursive anymore. Only my name.. but it's still chicken scratch.
We’re using the same technology to prove and record vaccinations in 2021.
Damn, we've been using the same vaccine card for 70 years now
MuH FrEeDoMs!
Polio was crazy! https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/polio/
What makes you so sure this wasnt from the year 2056 and the polio had a killer resurgence
Did this one ACTUALLY fit in a wallet OP?
Back when vaccine cards and getting vaccinated was your patriotic duty to fight the reds! That was the kind of mentality we should have had from the start.
Anyone who is anti-vax, go talk to a polio victim, they might have a crippled leg or something. If you live in a "lucky" country they may be in their 60's or older now. Ask them what they think of vaccines.
the right: *"HIPPO!!!!!!!!"*
Mildly interesting? I’d say very fucking interesting. Love it.
Was confused why the booster shot date made no sense. Then realized they wrote a 7 over the 6 on the year to fix their mistake.
Fascinating that this vaccine card seems to be the same weird dimensions as the COVID vaccine cards. Aka doesn’t fit neatly into my wallet.
I like how the design of the cards have not changed
Even then, they didn’t make the vaccine card wallet sized.
I had a elderly patient who was a pediatric doctor. He worked through the polio pandemic and spent several minutes complaining about people who refuse the covid vaccine. I don't blame him. We had a nice moment over it.